The amendment, they say, was never intended to be colorblind. The 14th amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, to grant citizenship and equal protection of the law to anyone “born or naturalized ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

10, 1868. This was not a rare or local view ... but they reflect a common – though contested – understanding of the 14th ...

And in 1868, 11 of the 21 Northern states did ... these states had to accept both the Fifteenth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to all people born in the United ...

The disqualification of former rebels for federal and state office was the most controversial of the sections of the Fourteenth Amendment ... on Christmas Day 1868, mooted this point.